- Record Label: Secretly Canadian / Rough Trade
- Release Date: Feb 1, 2005
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Universal acclaim- based on 271 Ratings
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Positive: 229 out of 271
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Mixed: 12 out of 271
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Negative: 30 out of 271
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EBowJun 12, 2005For the life of me I don't understand how anyone can listen to this. This is some of the worst music I have ever heard.
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DeanS.Jun 14, 2005I Am A Turd Now
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PaulBJun 18, 2005Stunning; hard to imagine that anyone wouldn't be moved by this.
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LucySJun 23, 2005beautiful
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LawrencePJun 3, 2005They a moments in this LP that will make me cry and I don't think I have ever been happier in my life.
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jyotirmayadJul 22, 2005Beautiful writing; the voice takes getting used to; boring in some areas; beautiful melodies; I dislike about 2 or 3 of these songs, but I have to agree with the praises -- a unique artist at the top of his gay.
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JBAug 15, 2005Absolutely amazing....
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SeyHaSAug 17, 2005An intimate and emotive meditation on the frailty of life, especially in the yearnings of childhood and the bleak prospect of death. This album has succeeded through both voice and music and is one of the rarest moments when it can transcend the sound and offer much more.
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DavidMAug 19, 2005
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EricMAug 2, 2005This disc is as overrated as they come. Aaron S. got it right when he noted this disc and M.I.A. are the worst discs to get good reviews all year. Melancholy vocals aren't always a good thing, folks.
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TomASep 11, 2005It's so whiney and painful to listen... i've never been a bully and in fact i was one of the kids that got picked on in school... but if i heard someone sing this crap, i would want to punch him in the face.
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salomeySep 2, 2005still my album of the year beautifully done it all fits together (singing, music, songs, arrangements) through sheer beauty excellent, excellent
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VincentHSep 24, 2005A Classic; nothing else needs to be said.
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RicardoPSep 5, 2005An impressive voice, that flys like an angel, a big angel with a voice from heaven, that only in 30 years we will hear another again. The right colaborations to the perfect album.
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DavidWFeb 16, 2006An album that stops your blood flowing lest you miss one word or phrase from that incredible voice.
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JuanAntonioAFeb 5, 2006From Diamanda Galás it did not listen to a voice that affected so much to me. The two last musical decades are saved by these voices. Will be essential for the history of music.
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AdolfoGMar 21, 2006Original, profundamente bello Una instrumentacion delicada que ensambla magistralmente con unas voces increibles
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anthonybMar 22, 2006this album is amazing! there is no other artist like this. antony coveys all of his omtions through song, it is entrancing and beautiful....this album is a must have!
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AmandaMar 24, 2006This album brings tears to my eyes every time. Also makes me smile like crazy.
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MarkBMar 24, 2006Amazing vocals! A must have for everyone! an absolute 10
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seamusmMar 28, 2006Singular voice that arcs high like a nightingale in flight. A lovely record. Check it out.
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BronWMay 28, 2006Challenging, haunting and beautiful, it sends tingles down my spine every time. Ignore the killjoys, not all music is supposed to be easy. This is gorgeous stuff.
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seanAug 31, 2006Easily the best album of 2005. Hands down. This is music that will take you on a journey to a place above yourself if you let it. Hope There Is Someone and Bird Gurl are the two best songs of 2005. BUY THIS ALBUM!
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KristannaPNov 15, 2005Is this what passes for music nowadays?! Antony's singing is whiny, his lyrics are short and stupid, his songs are either cut abruptly or drag on and on. If he wants the damn transexual operation then he should just get it instead of crying to listeners about it! This is nothing but TRASH! I WANT A REFUND!!!
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LolaNov 2, 2005I woke up to my radio alarm with Antony singing on NPR. I burst into tears. It's so beautiful. And I'm a jaded old broad. Passed him around and everybody loves him. My friend played him to her mother on her deathbed and then she died, hearing Antony as her last sounds on earth. That seems right to me.
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RickySNov 4, 2005
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BobLNov 7, 2005Who said, "Popularity breeds contempt?" The backlash to this is disheartening. What a fantastic record this is.
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yoridOct 21, 2005ayone that doesnt like this album should just shut their mouths and head over to walmart where they can purchase ashleigh simpson's album and stay in their microscopic universe of music.have a great day.....lol
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JoeMcDec 15, 2005Heartbreaking
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SWMDec 21, 2005Unspeakably beautiful and impossibly cathartic and pure. While albums of musical sophistication are a great thing, this album is one of emotional sophistication, to a degree that sometimes seems too mature and trasncedental to really understand. Easily one of the best albums of the year.
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TerryTickleDec 2, 2005
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HunterHDec 26, 2005His voice warbles like that of Etta James or Billie Holiday; the opening track, "Hope There's Someone," melodically drops your heart thirty feet off a pier into a dark ocean of despair.
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belvederehDec 27, 2005If you can ignore the excruciatingly awful vocals, the songs are quite nice.
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seanbOct 28, 2005the 3 is for originality! That is all this album is! anyone who wants to work hard to enjoy music give this one a miss!
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AdrianCFeb 13, 2005Majestic. Gorgeous. Lyrical. Moving. Oh my God. Great songwriting. Great voice. Torch songs that will stir you like nothing in recent times.
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ChaqellaZ.Feb 28, 2005A musical equivalent to half a bottle of vodka and a handful of pain pills, this album is sure to entrance all that listen to it.
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D.F.NicholasMar 14, 2005Vastly over-rated. The vocals become anoying about halfway through the first song and by track 3 you want to strangle the usually reliable reviewers who convinced you to buy this lousy CD.
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CharlotteCMar 15, 2005This album is brillaint, it might not be that amazing when you first listen to it, but once you re-listen to it, it touches the heart and soul... It is truely amazing, definitely worth buying in my eyes.
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claraeMar 19, 2005this album had a visceral effect on me. i knew it was going to be good, but it surpassed my expectations. cathartic, intimate, vibrant, sorrowful, hopeful... this string of adjectives seems redundant though. go buy it. & if you dont like it the first time, play it again. and if you still dont like it then i dunno. check your pulse.
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ArethusaMar 22, 2005I absolutely adore this album. The lyrics and the music would sound saccharine and overly dramatic with anyone else except Antony, whose voice really is the leading instrument in this band. I've just discovered them with this album and I can't get enough. I think it's one of those polarising records that you'll either love or won't.
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LennyDMar 27, 2005Shockingly dull and highly overrated. Very reminiscent in style of Mick Hucknall: Simply red.
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PaulSApr 23, 2005Very Good but not Excellent as first album )
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JohnnyK.May 13, 2005
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TiagoRMay 19, 2005Probably the best album of 2005!!! 5 stars!!!
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scepticJun 17, 2005Best album of 2005. Stunning. Emotional. Powerful. Quote: Matthew W "i could without a doubt sing the same way.". Well do it then. Or shut up. And next time, listen to the album yourself instead of playing it to your mother-brother.
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ShawnJun 19, 2005A stunningly beautiful masterpiece that manages to top Antony's also-brilliant debut.
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mattaJun 21, 2005Really beautiful music and Antony really does have an incredible voice but after repeated listens I realize that the album is a little one-note and even a little repititious at times. Still, a fantastic and original sound.
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BillHJun 27, 2005
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ThomasNJul 25, 2005Prettymuch every song is destined to be on a movie soundtrack someday.
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BlisterfishCafeSep 13, 2005
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drewtSep 23, 2005absultely the most stunningly touching album released this year. i cannot reccomend it highly enough.
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rogerkFeb 19, 2006one of the only cd's that i never get tiered of listing too
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KyleKMar 22, 2006Probably the most cohesive and moving album of the year.
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ScottWMay 11, 2006It's not worth spending money for just one good song. Download "Fistful of Love" but don't waste your money on the rest of this crap!
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BrendanNJun 11, 2006Challenging, emotional, beautiful, haunting, and just th slightest bit disturbing, I Am A Bird Now will make you shed a tear, quiver in fear, and ultimately cheer.
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ChristianBJul 28, 2006The most beautiful voice I've ever heard. Live even better.
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NavestKNov 29, 2005Best Of The Year
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DaveBDec 11, 2005This is as fragile, affirming, exquisite and incredibly sublime album you will ever hear. Hope There's Someone reduces human fear to its rawest elements and still makes it sound like something you want to listen to. Not since The Cure's Disintegration has it been this cool to be screwed up.
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TCDec 22, 2005Stunning, haunting and not for over analysis ;) one of the best of 05. Long live Antony....
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SimonBDec 27, 2005The most remarkable album I've heard since (the very different) Grace, by Jeff Buckley...and time will prove this to be every bit as much a classic as that one is now seen to be. Haunting and hurt, but ultimately uplifting.
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tqDec 31, 2005This album is heartbreaking and stunningly gorgeous. But don't listen to those who fault it for bad reasons or defend it for reasons just as closeminded and immature (Michael B, you are extremely guilty here).
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MeyaC.Dec 31, 2005I've only heard a few songs on this album, but his voice is so haunting. It's beautiful, exquisite and entirely different. Everything else, like the lyrics and the arrangements just make this record so much better. Though I'm usually a more hard rock person, Antony and the Johnsons just converted me.
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MichelNLFeb 7, 2007
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MaikenJun 5, 2007I just can't believe how beautiful this album is. It's .. stunning. I just don't have words.
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JanJul 21, 2007An outstanding beautiful voice, very good instrumentalists and some unbelievable touching lyrics. I like to listen to this songs a real lot from time to time. 10 points from me.
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robinfOct 16, 2006A miracle !
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BernadetteDApr 17, 2007All of the people who hated this album had nothing constructive to say>Criticism is supposed to be constructive,not just ignorant drivel.You all must be emotionally barren and bereft.This album is the best thing ever.Antonys voice would make you cry.For the person who claimed he could sing like antony if he wanted to;I don't think so mate,not in a million years.
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SteveRApr 23, 2007What's not To Like? this is a haunting and utterly beautiful masterpiece, nothing less. no one else has done this, ever, and this was THE album of 2005, no doubt.
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tinoApr 27, 2007to feel to know to infuse to perceive to resonate in the god-given voice of mozart stuck in [that] "middle place between light and nowhere" is to beathe, grieve and love robustly ethereal ANTONY may love always overflow your painful heart
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AndrewWDec 21, 2006I don't get it?! I have a wide-ranging taste in music. Roy Orbison to Thom Yorke to Johnny Cash to Nick Drake. Love Lou Reed. Love Rufus Wainwright. But I can't get into this album. It's not bad, but it doesn't really do anything. I've been trying to get this album for over a year now and I just give up.
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JohnM.Sep 21, 2007
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Oct 10, 2010This album is simply one of the most beautiful listens I have had in quite some time. Antony's voice is uniquely breath-taking, and the lyrical content is both raw and deeply meaningful. Just wonderful!
Awards & Rankings
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Haunting and affecting.
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For what it lacks in consistency, I Am A Bird Now gains in being, even at its most tedious of moments, an interesting and thematically compelling listen.
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Entertainment WeeklyIt could have been mawkish, but the sentiments--and Antony's trembling falsetto--are so honest, you love it despite your jaded self. [4 Feb 2005, p.133]